School district restricts showing Al Gore movie

[Kadie]

School district restricts showing Al Gore movie

Story Published: Jan 10, 2007 at 5:29 PM PST

Story Updated: Jan 10, 2007 at 5:35 PM PST

By Associated PressFEDERAL WAY, Wash. (AP) - The Federal Way School Board has put the brakes on schools showing former Vice President Al Gore's global warming movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."

In a vote last night, the board decided to require that an opposing view be presented in order for teachers to present the film.

The board voted 3 to 0, with two members absent.

Board president Ed Barney said he had received about a half-dozen complaints from parents that their child was taking the film as fact after viewing it at school.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/5151182.html

[Kerrytravelers]

1. And the opposing view would be ann coulter yelling and screaming?

Why not put the challenge back on the parents? Feel your have an opposing view? Ok, let's hear it. Back it up with facts. Show us a presentation that you would give the kids. Go ahead.

[babylonsister]

2. I don't even know where to start with that. nt

[marmar]

3. What's the opposing view? That there is no global warming?

Jee-zus. Stop this ride, I wanna get off!

[SaveElmer]

4. So if I made a movie showing the earth was round...

Would they have to watch a movie with an opposing view as well?

Sometimes I think these school board members are lacking the education they have been elected provide to others...

[WCGreen]

7. Well people elect them....

That's what you get when everyone pays attention to the natioal races and let's the local stuff fall off the radar because it isn't sexy enough...

[SaveElmer]

8. That is true...

My dad was on the school board in our district for three terms...won with less than 2,000 votes I think....really sad actually...

Luckily my dad is not an insane whacked out right winger!!!

[WCGreen]

14. I was thinkin' about running for School Board before I got sick...

[madeline_con]

5. Beside Falwell and Robertson tallking out of their asses...

IS there a flick with an opposing view? :shrug:

[Kadie]

15. .

Even Robertson believes global warming to be real now.

[ariellyn]

6. "...about a half-dozen complaints" and the movie is banned? Wow. nt

[frogcycle]

9. un-b-fucking-lievable

no doubt the board members are oil co execs or some such. and they submitted the complaints themselves

[lakeguy]

10. SIX complaints got this film banned.

some other numbers...

about a THOUSAND peer-reviewed science studies show that human increases in CO2/methane are causing the climate to change

ZERO proving the opposite

but SIX uninformed morons let the side with ZERO evidence win

[feistydem]

11. There is NO evidence of global warming in the Pacific NW, afterall....

Luckily, kids are often smarter than their parents and teachers. They understand that it isn't normal for salmon to spawn up Highway 99.

Here in Colorado, most kids also intuitively seem to understand that 6 feet of snow in 3 weeks at the lower elevations and hurricane-force wind gusts are also a little abnormal.

[mdmc]

12. perhaps they could also show happy feet

in that movie, something could be done to make the earth safe...

[thingsarelookingup]

13. That's funny they voted against it...

..my son's teachers gave him extra credit to see it and one asked to borrow my copy of the book.

[Kadie]

16. .

morning :kick:

[BlooInBloo]

17. Federal way = illiterate cracked out urban hicks.

[LibDemAlways]

18. What opposing view? There is no legitimate

opposing view - only the rantings of those who deny the obvious.

"a half dozen complaints from parents that their child was taking the film as fact."

Gore's film is based on science - something these morons clearly cannot comprehend or are terrified of. The board president ought to stand his ground, invite all parents to a special screening, and then ask them exactly what "fact" they are objecting to.

I guess it's ok to tell kids Santa Claus is delivering presents Christmas Eve, but when it comes to the glaciers melting, well they just can't believe their own friggen eyes. Amazing.